The drive has all of my personal data on it: photos, music, and most importantly to me, over 10 year's worth of emails! As an IT professional with over 2 decades of experience, naturally my data is ... not backed up.

I'm fairly certain it's a drive firmware corruption (apparently quite common on this particular model of drive), so I'm confident the data's undamaged.

I'm hoping that if I can get another of this exact model I can simply swap the controller board, fire up the disk, and get my data off (and then onto a non-Maxtor disk!).

I looked online, but can't find any stores selling this model now (it's about a year old).

So, I'm hoping that if any of you guys have this model, perhaps I could purchase you a brand new replacement, and I could have yours.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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yea i saw there was a 0 missin in the model number, just thought it might had been a typo from you. hope you find it somewhere, know how much it hurts to crash your disk, especially your most loved one.. you could always try sending it to a recovery company though, i crashed one of my disk last year, and it only costed me around 100£ to recover it plus the cost of a new harddrive which they put all the files into. Of course depends on how damaged the disk is, but for me it was just the motor spinning the disk that stopped working. This was actually done by a local computer company, so might be worth checking around your home town. gl anyway